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Windows, Networking and Software

FAQ, Tips, Hints, and Wisdom for Windows 98x/XP

David Gok 71

Registry – Re-enable Automatic Backups

To recreate the entry, start/run regedit, navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

In the right pane, right-click and choose new/string value. Call it ScanRegistry (one word – no space).

Double-click it to open, then copy/paste this line as the value:

c:\windows\scanregw.exe /autorun

Click "ok" and you're done. Close the registry editor and reboot to make your first backup. As to restoring

them, it's not that hard - see this article:

How to Manually Restore the Windows 98 Registry

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q221512

Registry – 95/98/MENT/2000 Registry Hacks

http://www.jsiinc.com/ Thousands of hints and tips to change how NT or 2000 works.

http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip.htm#HOME

Windows tricks for all OS.

http://users.aol.com/axcel216/ More Windows Tricks.

ScanReg – Backups & More than 5 backups

(I typically burn a backup of the registry files (both the regedit export file and the rbnnn.cab file) onto the

download CD.)

To backup your registry: Start>Run "scanreg /backup" - without the quotes although Windows ME makes a

backup copy of the registry every time you start your PC. These backups are compressed files named

RBnnn.CAB where nnn is a number in the directory c:\windows\sysbckup.

To backup your registry: If you want to backup the registry independently then you can go to Start>Run

"regedit" - without the quotes - and then click on the Registry>Export Registry File. You can then save the

registry to whatever folder you like - but make sure that at the bottom in the 'Export range' you select 'all'.

Then you can burn it onto a CD etc. It will *not* fit onto a floppy - my registry is 12Mb+. Hope this

helps.

Scanreg /restore will give you the option of restoring up to - I think – one of the five registry 'saves' that

ME makes.

You may well ask about backing up more than 5 copies. But that is the way of it, and I would not

recommend having the number of copies set at over five. You might consider saving an especially

important state by copying the relevant rbnnn.cab file from windows\sysbckup to a different folder. But

don't expect such backups to remain relevant for very long: certainly not if you install new software.

I have modified the scanreg.ini file to save 10 backup copies of the registry. It correctly creates all 10

copies, one at first boot-up each day. But, it does not display them in the list presented by running scanreg

/restore. It only lists 4 of the 10, and these seem to be a random selection of the ten. That is, the newest of

the four listed may be 3-5 days old. This behavior is not unique to me. I asked a friend to check, and his

works (or rather doesn't) the same way.

Why doesn't it list all 10 backup copies? If it is only supposed to list 4, why aren't these the most current 4?

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